Inyo County Municipal Code Ch. 10.44 Additional Parking Regulations

A. The road commissioner is authorized upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation to permit angle parking where the width of a street or road or portions thereof and traffic conditions are such that parking of a vehicle at an angle to the curb or edge of the street or road will not be unduly hazardous to the flow of traffic and there is need for additional parking space which angle parking will provide.

B. The road commissioner may indicate at what angle traffic conditions make it desirable that vehicles should be parked by placing parallel white lines upon the surface of the street or road or portions thereof.

C. Where angle parking is permitted as provided in subsection A of this section and the angle of parking is indicated upon the surface of the street or road, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle except at the angle indicated with the nearest wheel not more than one foot from the curb or bumper which may be placed in lieu of curbs or the edge of the street or road.

D. Whenever the road commissioner determines upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation that the conditions, because of which angle parking has been permitted upon a street or road or portions thereof as provided in subsection A of this section, no longer exist, he shall obliterate such angle parking lines and other markings from such streets or roads or portions thereof. Thereafter on such portion of the street or road, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle other than according to Section 22502 of the Vehicle Code or as provided in this title.

E. The road commissioner may prohibit stopping, standing or parking in connection with any angle parking layout or plan as provided in Section 10.36.050A.5.

(Ord. 95 § 100, 1962)

A. Whenever parallel parking is required on any street or road or portion thereof as provided in Section 22502 of the Vehicle Code, the road commissioner is authorized to place white lines consistent with the provisions of Section 22502 of the Vehicle Code parallel to and/or at right angle to the curb or edge of the street or road when a traffic investigation indicates that such white lines would facilitate the parking of vehicles or alleviate a hazardous condition. When such white lines have been placed no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle outside of the rectangle space indicated by such lines and the curb or edge of the street or road. The road commissioner may prohibit stopping, standing or parking in connection with any parallel parking layout or plan as provided in Section 10.36.050A.5.

B. Whenever the road commissioner determines upon the basis of a traffic engineering investigation that the conditions because of which parallel parking white lines were placed as provided in subsection A of this section no longer exist, he shall obliterate such white lines from such streets or roads or portions thereof.

(Ord. 95 § 101, 1962)

A. For the purpose of this section, a "limited parking space" means an area open for lawful parking along side of, and adjacent to, a curb or edge of a street or road, which area is not of sufficient length to permit two or more vehicles to park therein at the same time.

B. Any person seeking to park his vehicle in a limited parallel parking space, whose vehicle arrives at the parking space prior to any other vehicle, and who proceeds beyond the space with his entire vehicle a distance not to exceed ten feet for the purpose of backing his vehicle therein, shall have the right-of-way over any person driving or attempting to drive any other vehicle directly into such limited parking space and the driver of such other vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to the driver who first arrived at the limited parallel parking space.

(Ord. 95 § 102, 1962)